On December 2, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev laid the foundation stone of the plant for cleaning, washing and drying walnut crops of "Sheki-Oguz" Agropark in Oguz region.

APA informs that the director of "Agroinkishaf 2017" Limited Liability Company Ruslan Sadikhov informed the head of state about the project of the plant.

It was reported that in order to organize the sale of the obtained product in accordance with international standards, the walnut washing, drying, sorting and packing plant was jointly designed with the US company and a contract was signed for equipping it with equipment.

4 hectares of land has been allocated for the construction of the plant, where two production lines will be created.

It was noted that 10,000 tons of walnuts were initially planned to be produced from 2,000 hectares of orchards.

At the same time, a nursery for nut varieties was established.

The time of collection and drying of products is 40 days.

The volume of 80 metal boxes designed for drying walnut products is 400 tons.

It was reported that initially 40 new jobs are planned to be created at the plant.

President Ilham Aliyev laid the foundation of the new plant.

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The time is 17:48

On December 2, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev laid the foundation stone of the plant for cleaning, washing and drying walnut crops of "Sheki-Oguz" Agropark in Oguz region.

APA reports that the Press Service of the President released information about this.